New member and aspiring investor

[Tyler Hallman]

Hello! 

Background: My name is Tyler Hallman and my wife and I are currently living in Coeur d'Alene Idaho which is in North Idaho very close to Spokane, Washington. The Coeur d'Alene area seems like a great up and coming spot to buy and hold property! We are originally from Colorado and love it there as well, my wife is a travel nurse so we get to move to cool places a lot for short stints of time and I work from home and own my own marketing/advertising/design company.

Goals: My goal with investing is to practice the brrrr strategy as well as fix and flip. I am actively looking in the Coeur d'Alene/spokane area for deals as well as the western half of Colorado as thats where our family lives and my father in law is a GC and knows all of the right people to make contracting a home a breeze. I am diving deep into the education of this and want to take action. The goal is to have 5 rentals and have flipped 2 additional homes in the next 3 years. 

What have I done so far: So far I've found a few deals, asked agents about them, and when the agent says who are you working on finance through I hit a wall. 1) I haven't been pre approved by anyone. 2) It seems during all of these podcasts/videos on BP they say "just make an offer" so I get tripped up when I actually get asked where's the money. and 3) well.. I don't have money to put down 20% and because I'm new to this I don't think a hard money lender will lend to me. (maybe i'm wrong there, hope so) 

Anyway thats my story, hope to learn a lot here and make some professional connections!

Tyler